It really irks me that when you do an online search for “healthy recipes”, you are given dozens of “low-calorie”, “low-fat” and “low carbohydrate” options, as if nutrition and health can be broken down into a mathematical formula we can all follow toward perfect health.

It’s like that same look I get when I tell people that I’m a nutritionist, and suddenly they are remembering and shamed by the hamburger they ate for lunch.

Most people don’t understand what real food and real nutrition really are.
I was never a natural at mathematics and so I do my best to keep it out of my nutritional practice, and I advise you to do the same in your grocery baskets. Keep it real. Keep it simple. Instead of thinking in equations, take a moment to think: what am I eating? Do I want to eat maltodextrin, high fructose corn syrup, BHT, caramel colour and artificial colour? Is there something else I could have for breakfast? Eggs perhaps, oats maybe?